NFA* II. GUERRILLA CITY GARDENING & ... ABY SI LIDI VŠIMLI Saturday March 14, 5:15 PM, Motorenhalle, Wachsbleichstraße 4a (Backyard), 01067 Dresden

GUERRILLA CITY GARDENING. A CRITICAL VIEW BY CZECH VIDEO
Guest: Sylva Poláková (CZ); Curation and moderation: Frank Eckhardt

Gardening became a widespread social practice in Czechoslovakia, as it did in the GDR. It also represented a longing for private space and embodied the dream of home ownership for adults and adventure for children—both to a very limited extent.

films:

Sauerkraut (Pavla Sceránková, 2006, 5 min 24 sec)
Unsere Gärten (Eva Jiřička, 2005, 8 min 12 sec)
360° (Eva Jiřička, 2006, 6 min 48 sec)
Jak jsme pomáhali [How We Helped] (Vasil Artamonov and Alexey Klyuykov, 2006)
Okopávání zahrady [Weeding the Garden] (4 min 53 sec)
Natírání plotu [Painting the Fence] (5 min 16 sec)
Natírání vrat garáže [Painting the Garage Door] (3 min 8 sec)
Natírání stromu vápnem [Whitewashing the Tree] (1 min 40 sec)
Sázení stromu [Planting a Tree] (3 min 14 sec)

IN ENGLISH

 ABY SI LIDI VŠIMLI
...SO THAT PEOPLE NOTICE
Director: Vladislav Kvasnicˇka | CˇSSR, 1988 | 21 min
Guest: Jonáš Kucharský (CZ); Curation and moderation: Frank Eckhardt

This rare short film from the last days of communist Czechoslovakia depicts the life of a young punk caught between youthful rebellion and a surveillance state. With grainy images and unfiltered interviews, it is a poignant time capsule of late socialist dissidence: raw, fast-paced, and unmistakably real.

IN ENGLISH

*National Film Archive Prague